All Short stops articles – Page 13
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E-COMMERCE & DTC
+++ Zalando plans to invest €50 million on its Connected Retail platform this year, with a large part of it used to finance its newly implemented extension to France +++ Working through a Kendal-based retailer, Pete Blend Sports, Inov-8 will open its first mono-brand store, called The ...
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DISTRIBUTION
+++ Luanvi, the Spanish sportswear manufacturer, is entering the Italian market via a distribution agreement with RV Distribution, a company based in Cuneo, in Italy’s Piedmont region +++
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RETAIL
+++ The three Citadium stores in France - two in Paris and one in Toulon - that were supposed to shut down in 2022, as announced by the company last November, will ultimately remain open thanks to encouraging sales and the renegotiation of rents +++ The fourth Absolut Run store ...
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RECENT SHORT STOPS: Nike – Absolut Run – Luanvi – Wimbledon – Olympics -Hyperice
Retail : +++ Taking the place of a former Nike store in Valencia, JD Sports is opening a flagship store of 650 sqm. in the center of the Spanish city +++ The fourth Absolut Run store of Sport 2000 in Germany has opened on 200 square ...
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MARKETING
+++ Adidas will replace Macron as the apparel sponsor of Phoenix Rising FC, the American professional soccer team based in Phoenix, Arizona, in a new six-year deal that will run until 2026 +++ Wilson has announced Marcelo Capitani, who currently tops the country ranking in the sport, as its new ...
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DTC & E-COMMERCE
+++ Swix has opened its first U.S. concept store, featuring also the Lundhags and Ulvang brands owned by its parent company, at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Ski Stadium in Lake Placid, New York +++ Thule will be opening its first store in North America in the ...
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DISTRIBUTION
+++ The merchandise and training programs of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar, Rafael Nadal’s brainchild, based in Manacor (Mallorca), can now be purchased on Amazon following a new agreement between the two parties +++ Redipro will handle the distribution of Everlast in Spain and Andorra +++
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TRADE SHOWS & OTHER EVENTS
+++ The 30-year-old Euromoda Sport Fashion Center at Neuss near Düsseldorf, which hosts the showroooms of some 200 brands, is being modernized +++
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MARKETING
+++ UEFA has announced TikTok as a new global sponsor of the UEFA Euro 2020 championship, the first partnership of a digital entertainment platform with the organizers of the European football tournament, which is set to take place this summer after being postponed due to the pandemic ++++++ Molten Corp. ...
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LEGAL % INSTITUTIONAL
+++ Macron has applied for and obtained the ISO 9001:2015 certification, a standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system, from the Italian office of TÜV Rheinland Italy +++
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CORPORATE AND M&A
+++ The NBC Sports Network will cease operations by the end of 2021, with key elements of its programming shifting to USA Network, also owned by NBCUniversal, and Peacock, which is NBCUniversal’s new streaming service +++
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MARKETING
+++ Macron has announced a new agreement with the Romanian Rugby Federation (Rugby România) that will make the Italian sportswear brand the technical sponsor of the Romanian national rugby union team for the next three sporting seasons +++ Fila has extended its partnership deal with Ashleigh Barty, the 24-year-old Australian ...
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LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL
+++ The Government of Quebec has withdrawn its financial backing fir Montreal’s bid to stage matches of the FIFA World Cup 2026, which will be hosted across Canada, Mexico and the U.S., due to the difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic +++
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DTC & E-COMMERCE
+++ Nike has opened a fourth small-format Nike Live store in Eugene, Oregon, after those in Los Angeles, Tokyo and New York +++
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EXECUTIVE CHANGES
+++ Markus Rech, who left last April as CEO of SportScheck, after Signa Retail took over the German sporting goods retail chain, is reportedly going to run Takko Fashion, a German discount fashion retailer +++
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RETAIL
+++ Bergans of Norway will open a new bmono-rand store in the Norwegian city of Trondheim +++
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DISTRIBUTION
+++ Glacier Imports has agreed with Groove Armada Distribution that it will take over its distribution in the U.K. and Ireland of Capita snowboards, Union snowboard bindings, Coal headwear, DeeLuxe snowboard boots and Crab Grab snowboard gloves and accessories from the autumn/winter 2021/22 season +++ Aclima, the Norwegian merino wool ...
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LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL
+++ The 2021 Alpine Skiing World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, which is scheduled to take place on Feb. 8-28, will be held without spectators due to coronavirus restrictions +++
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EXECUTIVE CHANGES
+++ E.Leclerc, the French cooperative society and hypermarket chain, has promoted Quentin Lecasble to head of its sports purchasing department to replace Jean-Michel Martin, as reported by sport-guide.com +++ John Culver, who has been leading Starbucks’ international expansion, has joined the board of directors of Columbia Sportswear +++
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CORPORATE
+++ Anta has reportedly invested the equivalent of around $92 million in a production base in Anyue county, in the Sichuan province, which is expected to be completed by October 2022 and to eventually employ between 3,000 and 5,000 people, according to Chinese media +++ +++ Dentsu has consolidated its ...